Minecraft Snapshot 16w39c - The Exploration Update

Posted on Sep 25, 2016
by Jens Bergensten

Update: Minecraft snapshot 16w39c has been released!

Seven years and counting, Minecraft is still growing and expanding. We thought it is about time we add something to guide you through the vastness of the endless overworlds. Introducing the Exploration Update!

Among your villager friends, you will now find the Cartographer residing in the library. Spend your hard-earned emeralds to obtain maps leading you to adventurous locations such as the Ocean Monument and the new Woodland Mansion.

This procedurally generated dungeon is the home of the villager’s outcast cousins, the Illagers. This insidious and spooky crowd will not tolerate any trespassers in their home, so you should expect a fight when you venture there for the mansion’s treasure.

The Exploration Update also brings the Shulker Box, an inventory-expanding chest originating from The End itself. This box’s primary property is to keep items inside of itself even when the box is knocked down. This behavior is something that contraption tinkerers should find useful as well, as it enables large amounts of items to be transported in a predictable manner.

Speaking of transporting items, Minecraft now hosts llamas! The llamas live in the mountains and can be equipped with chests to carry items for you. Well-mannered as they are, they will also politely form caravans whenever you lead one in your travels.

As always there are many other neat additions in this update, and here is the intentionally noninformative change log:

Added cursed enchantments

Added the Observer block

Added escape portals in The End

Added the Shulker Shell and Shulker Box

Added exploration maps

Added the Woodland Mansion

Added Illagers, and the Vex

Added Llamas

New command: /locate

Removed Herobrine

Bugs fixed in 16w39c:

[Bug MC-7809] - Aiming at the very bottom of a side of an upper slab/stair places slabs/stairs right-side up in multiplayer

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com. If nobody reports a bug, we can’t fix it!

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Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.